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    • Oct 25, 1999
    Steel guitar player Earl "Joaquin" Murphey dies of cancer in Los Angeles. The West Coast swing musician contributed to hits by Merle Travis, Spade Cooley, Tex Williams and The Sons Of The Pioneers
    Nov 17, 1999
    Wilene "Sally Ann" Forrester dies with Alzheimer's disease in Nashville. Married to fiddler "Howdy" Forrester, she played accordion with Bill Monroe's Blue Grass Boys for three years in the 1940s, appearing on record on "Kentucky Waltz"
    Mar 19, 2000
    Comedian Gilbert "Speck" Rhodes dies at his home in Nashville. He was a cast member on Porter Wagoner's syndicated television show and played bass in Wagoner's band, The Wagonmasters
    Mar 24, 2000
    Steel guitarist and executive Joe Talbot dies in Nashville of lung cancer. A publisher and owner of a record pressing plant, he performed with Hank Snow from 1950-1954, appearing on "(Now And Then There's) A Fool Such As I" and "I'm Moving On"
    Apr 21, 2000
    The Jordanaires' second tenor, Neal Matthews, dies in Nashville, following a heart attack. The vocal quartet sang background on classics by Elvis Presley, Patsy Cline, Tammy Wynette and Loretta Lynn, entering the Country Music Hall of Fame in 2001
    Apr 30, 2000
    Multi-instrumentalist Bill Woods dies at Bakersfield's San Joaquin Hospital several weeks after triple bypass heart surgery. His resume included work with Merle Haggard, Jean Shepard and Tommy Collins
    May 14, 2000
    Steel guitarist Gary Hogue dies of a heart attack. He played on the multi-artist Grammy-winner "Same Old Train," a 1998 track produced by his boss, Marty Stuart
    Jun 16, 2000
    Guitarist Jimmy Self dies in Clovis, New Mexico. He played on country hits by Eddy Arnold, Hank Locklin and Don Gibson
    Aug 19, 2000
    Fiddler Jimmy Belkin dies of liver cancer. A longtime member of Merle Haggard's band, The Strangers, Belkin's work included the recordings "My Favorite Memory," "Big City" and the George Jones duet "Yesterday's Wine"
    Aug 25, 2000
    Swing fiddler Cliff Bruner dies at his Houston home. Bruner was briefly one of Milton Brown's Musical Brownies before forming his own band, which served as a springboard for keyboard player Moon Mullican and steel legend Bob Dunn



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